Holmes Road
Peter Barber Architects have been appointed to undertake a feasability study for Holmes Road Studios. The Scheme as proposed is a beautiful new homeless facility providing high quality residential accommodation, together with training and counselling facilities, all laid out around a delightful new courtyard garden.
Entrance is from Holmes Road into a newly refurbished Victorian building. A bright, open, airy reception area frames sunny views which lead the eye into a new garden beyond. Many of the proposed rooms look out over this newly conceived garden. Here the ideal is for groups of residents to work with a gardener: creating and maintaining an intensely-planted and beautiful space.
A courtyard outpost sits in this green patch -a little enclosure for 'one-to-one' private chats and counselling.
Accommodation is in ensuite rooms with living areas at the level of the garden and bedrooms located on a raised level above the shower rooms. The rooms are lit via a partially glazed door, pretty looking circular windows and a roof light. The buildings are envisaged as a rustic brick under a crinkle-crankle roof, giving the project a relaxed and comfortable domestic scale.
